Statistically Improbable Phrases
DH tells a story about how when SD was little, she used to like playing with the dimmer switch on the lights at his parent’s house (where he lived after the lease ended, after the divorce).
One night, when she was 2 or 3, he was cajoling her to finish her dinner. He said “If you finish your green beans, then you can turn off the lights!”
He thought, at the time, that there was no way he would ever have imagined himself or anyone else ever using that particular combination of words. He imagined that he was the first person ever to say that, and might, very well, be the last.
Just this morning, I was laying in bed, thinking about the day ahead of me and, at one point, the words ‘Litterbox Festival’ put themselves together in my head.
I’ll be no one’s ever thought of those words in that way before, either 
Stop getting into my childhood brain, Gazoog!!!
(I’ll bet kitties dream of litterbox festivals!
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Comment by Woody — April 20, 2006 @ 7:46 pm